The Miniature Maestro: The Peripatetic Life of Joseph Werner In the grand, sweeping tapestry of the Baroque era, where scale often leaned toward the monumental and the theatrical, there existed a master of the infinitesimal. Joseph Werner the Younger (1637–1710) possessed the rare ability to condense the majesty of European courts into the palm of a hand. Born in the Swiss city of Bern, Werner’s life was a restless journey across the…